A week in security (June 23 – June 29)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Gmail’s multi-factor authentication bypassed by hackers to pull off targeted attacks Thousands of private camera feeds found online. Make sure yours isn’t one of them Sextortion email scammers increase their "Hello pervert" money demands Many data brokers are faili...

The Democratization of Phishing: Popularity of PhaaS platforms on the rise

The Democratization of Phishing: Popularity of PhaaS Platforms on the Rise By Ryan Slaney · June 30, 2025 The phishing industry is being profoundly reshaped by the surge of Phishing-as-a-Service PhaaS platforms. These accessible, often Artificial Intelligence AI-powered, offerings are democratizi...

Facebook's New AI Tool Asks to Upload Your Photos for Story Ideas, Sparking Privacy Concerns

Facebook, the social network platform owned by Meta, is asking for users to upload pictures from their phones to suggest collages, recaps, and other ideas using artificial intelligence AI, including those that have not been directly uploaded to the service. According to TechCrunch, which first...

Cybercriminal abuse of large language models

Cybercriminals are continuing to explore artificial intelligence AI technologies such as large language models LLMs to aid in their criminal hacking activities. Some cybercriminals have resorted to using uncensored LLMs or even custom-built criminal LLMs for illicit purposes. Advertised features ...

Google Adds Multi-Layered Defenses to Secure GenAI from Prompt Injection Attacks

Google has revealed the various safety measures that are being incorporated into its generative artificial intelligence AI systems to mitigate emerging attack vectors like indirect prompt injections and improve the overall security posture for agentic AI systems. "Unlike direct prompt injections,...

Technical Evaluation of a Disruptive Approach in Homomorphic AI

We present a technical evaluation of a new, disruptive cryptographic approach to data security, known as HbHAI Hash-based Homomorphic Artificial Intelligence. HbHAI is based on a novel class of key-dependent hash functions that naturally preserve most similarity properties, most AI algorithms rel...

Organizational Adaptation to Generative AI in Cybersecurity: a Systematic Review

Cybersecurity organizations are adapting to GenAI integration through modified frameworks and hybrid operational processes, with success influenced by existing security maturity, regulatory requirements, and investments in human capital and infrastructure. This qualitative research employs...

Real-Time Agile Software Management for Edge and Fog Computing Based Smart City Infrastructure

The evolution of smart cities demands scalable, secure, and energy-efficient architectures for real-time data processing. With the number of IoT devices expected to exceed 40 billion by 2030, traditional cloud-based systems are increasingly constrained by bandwidth, latency, and energy limitation...

Secure Energy Transactions Using Blockchain Leveraging AI for Fraud Detection and Energy Market Stability

Peer-to-peer trading and the move to decentralized grids have reshaped the energy markets in the United States. Notwithstanding, such developments lead to new challenges, mainly regarding the safety and authenticity of energy trade. This study aimed to develop and build a secure, intelligent, and...

SoK: Privacy-Enhancing Technologies in Artificial Intelligence

As artificial intelligence AI continues to permeate various sectors, safeguarding personal and sensitive data has become increasingly crucial. To address these concerns, privacy-enhancing technologies PETs have emerged as a suite of digital tools that enable data collection and processing while...

Flexible Hardware-Enabled Guarantees for AI Compute

As artificial intelligence systems become increasingly powerful, they pose growing risks to international security, creating urgent coordination challenges that current governance approaches struggle to address without compromising sensitive information or national security. We propose flexible...

Navigating the Growing Field of Research on AI for Software Testing

In industry, software testing is the primary method to verify and validate the functionality, performance, security, usability, and so on, of software-based systems. Test automation has gained increasing attention in industry over the last decade, following decades of intense research into test...

AI Safety Vs. AI Security: Demystifying the Distinction and Boundaries

Artificial Intelligence AI is rapidly being integrated into critical systems across various domains, from healthcare to autonomous vehicles. While its integration brings immense benefits, it also introduces significant risks, including those arising from AI misuse. Within the discourse on managin...

WordPress plugin AI Engine 安全漏洞

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation.WordPress plugin is an application plugin. An unspecified vulnerability exists in WordPress AI Engine plugin that stems from a lack of capability checking, which can be exploited by attackers to cause unauthorized data...

The importance of managing your SEO strategy in a safe way

As SEO leans towards AI, site owners are more in need of third-party tools, and agencies and updating…...

Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Threat Analysis

Artificial Intelligence brings innovations into the society. However, bias and unethical exist in many algorithms that make the applications less trustworthy. Threats hunting algorithms based on machine learning have shown great advantage over classical methods. Reinforcement learning models are...

Safety Features for a Centralised AGI Project

Recent AI progress has outpaced expectations, with some experts now predicting AI that matches or exceeds human capabilities in all cognitive areas AGI could emerge this decade, potentially posing grave national and global security threats. AI development is currently occurring primarily in the...

WordPress plugin AI Image Lab – Free AI Image Generator 跨站请求伪造漏洞

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation.WordPress plugin is an application plugin. A cross-site request forgery vulnerability exists in the WordPress AI Image Lab - Free AI Image Generator plugin, which stems from missing or incorrect validation of random...

Social Media Reactions to Open Source Promotions: AI-Powered GitHub Projects on Hacker News

Social media platforms have become more influential than traditional news sources, shaping public discourse and accelerating the spread of information. With the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence AI, open-source software OSS projects can leverage these platforms to gain visibility and...

A Bootiful Podcast: The legendary Daniel Garnier-Moiroux on security, AI, MCP, and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to the legendary Daniel Garnier-Moiroux on security, AI, MCP, and more, recorded live at Devoxx UK 2025...